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BWW Review: AMERICAN SON's urgency and powerhouse cast make the best of this stage-to-screen transition
by Isabella Perrone - September 17, 2019 AMERICAN SON is the most recent Broadway-based story to be reimagined for film, but what makes it particularly special is the fact play's original cast reprise their roles, allowing audiences the chance to take in the timely story and gripping performances from the comfort of their homes. Adapted fr... 
BWW Review: Sun Is Gonna Shine for Bright Star at the Ahmanson
by Don Grigware - October 23, 2017 Steve Martin's and Edie Brickell's Bright Star played Broadway in 2016, garnering a Tony nomination for Carmen Cusack. The show fared somewhat well, but did not seem to be an overall critics' choice. On the minus side, it is an all too familiar story about a backwoods pregnant girl and parental abus... 
PROTEINS OF MAGIC Returns With 'Flesh It Out'
by Michael Major - August 31, 2023 Directed by Ranger Garrett, “Flesh It Out” arrives with an art-house style official video intended to capture a ‘day in the life’ in Nashville. Showing another side of the fluorescent glitz and glamour of the music city, it was shot around various alternative landmarks using a vintage Sony PMW-F3 an... 
Student Blog: My Top Ten Favorite Musical Theatre Finales
by Student Blogger: Jaclyn Hansen - April 23, 2021 Whether it be a large dance number, a touching duet, or a beautiful ensemble number— the finale has the ability to set the tone of the show. I remember when I was growing up and doing Musical Theatre as a kid, I always loved the final number of a show. I loved performing in them, watching them, and ... 
BWW Flashback: A Look Back on Stage to Screen Musicals of the Last 10 Years!
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 31, 2019 With 2019 coming to a close, the new decade is set to bring us a slew of film adaptations of our favorite stage musicals! From West Side Story to In the Heights to The Prom, we are gearing up for some big films, but before we move into 2020, let's have a look back on the last ten years of musicals t... 
Review Roundup: What Did Critics Think Of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's FLEABAG in the West End?
by Marianka Swain - August 28, 2019 Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Waller-Bridge is performing the one-woman show for the last time at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.... 
Review Roundup: MASTER CLASS at Garry Marshall Theatre
by Alan Henry - October 09, 2017 MASTER CLASS runs at Garry Marshall Theatre through October 22, and the critics are weighing in!... 
BWW Feature: GIVING VOICE TO UNTOLD STORIES: Why World Puppetry Day Matters
by Amy Oestreicher - March 12, 2021 It’s hard to believe that COVID has darkened our theatres for nearly a year. So, why is puppetry more important than ever right now to bring us together through story, entertainment, and a fusion of performance art forms? ... 
BWW Review: THE FULL MONTY at Uptown Players
by Kyle Christopher West - October 22, 2017 The 1997 British comedy film THE FULL MONTY was such a surprise hit, winning four Academy Awards on this side of the pond, that it was no shock to see it musicalized on the Great White Way only three short years later. For Broadway, the setting had been relocated from Northern England to the Northea...
Student Blog: My Top Ten Favorite Musical Theatre Finales
by Student Blogger: Jaclyn Hansen - April 23, 2021 Whether it be a large dance number, a touching duet, or a beautiful ensemble number— the finale has the ability to set the tone of the show. I remember when I was growing up and doing Musical Theatre as a kid, I always loved the final number of a show. I loved performing in them, watching them, and ... 
Wesley Schultz Releases Cover of Eric Clapton's 'Bell Bottom Blues' & Phoebe Bridgers Releases Cover of (Sandy) Alex G's 'Powerful Man'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - November 02, 2018 Today, Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers and Phoebe Bridgers released new songs as part of the new Amazon Original 'Produced By' series featuring producer Simone Felice, only on Amazon Music. 'Produced By' is a series of Amazon Original music developed to spotlight today's community of producers worki... 
BWW Flashback: From the A.R.T. to Broadway- The Shows of Diane Paulus
by Nicole Rosky - December 05, 2019 Later today, Broadway welcomes a brand new musical, JAGGED LITTLE PILL- an exhilarating new musical inspired by the themes and raw emotions laid bare in Alanis Morissette's seminal album of the same name. The show marks the return of Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus, who brings it straight f... 
BWW Review: Ford's Theatre's Gripping and Raw DEATH OF A SALESMAN
by Benjamin Tomchik - September 29, 2017 Ford's Theatre's must-see production is raw and gripping in its emotional intensity. Led by Craig Wallace's powerhouse performance as Willy Loman, Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning play is as relevant now, maybe more so, in its questioning of the American dream as it was when it first opened.... 
BWW Review: AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN at Urbanite Theatre is a dose of love and reality
by Jacob Ruscoe - November 05, 2021 Sometimes theatre is different. Sometimes it is unique and thought-provoking with enough emotion to pull your heart strings and punch you in the gut all at the same time. There are times where a play is not conventional; yet allows its audiences to experiences an array of feelings that make us glad ... 
The Beautiful Fear Announces New Album THE WALTZ OF THE MOONSHINE BLIND
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 30, 2020 Today, The Beautiful Fear (aka Matthew Bannister) has released “The Arndale Whale”, the first video and track off of his upcoming double album The Waltz of the Moonshine Blind, due August 28.... 
BWW Review: COCK at Circa Theatre is Honest, Awkward and Electrifying
by Lindsey Rusling - October 17, 2019 In the English lexicon, there are many uses for the word a?oecocka?? with a myriad of meanings and Mike Bartlett covers them all in his acclaimed 2009 script currently playing at Circa Theatre, Wellington.... 
Review: LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
by Rachel Weinberg - April 18, 2023 LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE explores the in-between, the murkiness of transitioning life stages and fraught family relationships.... 
Review: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND from ACT Theatre And The 5th Avenue Theatre
by Jay Irwin - October 06, 2023 Dear Readers, last night I discovered at “Cambodian Rock Band”, the latest collaboration of ACT and the 5th Avenue Theatre, that I am officially a cranky old man. This is an astounding play from an astounding playwright but infused with a rock concert vibe. Now, I’ve never been a concert guy and whi...
BWW Flashback: A Look Back on Stage to Screen Musicals of the Last 10 Years!
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 31, 2019 With 2019 coming to a close, the new decade is set to bring us a slew of film adaptations of our favorite stage musicals! From West Side Story to In the Heights to The Prom, we are gearing up for some big films, but before we move into 2020, let's have a look back on the last ten years of musicals t... 
Cody and Marshal From Hinder Announce New Project: Dangerous Hippies
by Abigail Charpentier - November 21, 2019 Hinder drummer Cody Hanson and frontman Marshal Dutton have announced a new project under the moniker Dangerous Hippies. The idea for the new band unofficially started in 2011 when the two were working as a songwriting/production partnership, before Marshall joined Hinder. They were approached to wr... 
Review: TAP DANCING THROUGH AUSCHWITZ Is A Beam Of Light In Our Dark World
by David McKibbin - December 23, 2022 What did our critic think of TAP DANCING THROUGH AUSCHWITZ at The Arts Garage?... 
Shattered Will Be Performed Live and Live-streamed at Caveat NYC
by Stephi Wild - September 04, 2021 Using flashback, narration and personification of characters in the mind, Shattered explores that question and themes such as dating and relationships, mental health, the power of Shame, post-traumatic growth and much more.... 
BWW Review: ON YOUR FEET! Comes to Kennedy Center
by Jennifer Perry - January 12, 2018 It's fun and sometimes that's all you need.... 
BWW Review: SEPARATE ROOMS at 4615 Theatre Company
by Rachael Goldberg - February 26, 2019 4615 Theatre Company's 'Separate Rooms' is a great display of how love and loss can affect a group of people - it balances the raw emotions of the moment with the very human need to push on. Despite some story arc issues, it is a touching, intimate, and funny insight into humanity.... 
BWW Exclusive: John Kander Ebbs & Flows In 3/4 Time
by Harry Haun - June 13, 2018 In the black at the back of the Vineyard Theater during one of the final previews of The Beast in the Jungle the other night sat its composer, disguising himself as a member of the audience by dispassionately drinking in the stage action and politely applauding at the appropriate places. This is-typ... |
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